Thanks for reading and taking the time to respond. I do appreciate it.

I can't, however, agree that the 'extreme left has always been more violent,' at least not in America of recent memory. If you tote up, for example, the victims of assassination in the latter half of the twentieth century: Medgar Evars, Violet Luozzo, Chaney, Goodman and Schwermer, MLK Jr., JFK, RFK... That they were victims on the left is of no doubt, but equally certain is that the left didn't retaliate in kind... which they likely would have done if they considered violence an acceptable form of politics.

Perhaps you can say more of what you think you mean by asserting that the 'extreme left' has always been more violent...?